AI’s potential to sort out the UK’s productiveness puzzle

These traits present that we will’t afford to go away AI adoption to likelihood. That’s why, final summer time, we launched ‘AI Works’, a partnership which got down to uncover the best methods to speed up AI adoption and upskilling, constructing on over a decade’s value of digital expertise coaching that has reached over 1 million Brits.

Nobody firm can unlock AI’s full financial advantages alone, so we partnered with a union, small companies and educators from 15 faculties throughout the UK to trial totally different upskilling strategies. Our AI Works pilot explored the experiences of 1,700 folks from throughout the private and non-private sectors working in organisations of all sizes.

The AI Works report is out

Our newly launched AI Works report reveals each the challenge’s useful learnings and actionable suggestions that can allow the nation to unlock AI-powered development.

Right here’s what we discovered:

1. AI habits are straightforward to type – Just some hours of coaching can double every day AI utilization, with utilization remaining excessive even months after the pilots. This influence is true throughout all segments of the inhabitants, with upskilling considerably narrowing the adoption hole amongst ladies over 50.
2. Folks need “permission to immediate” – We discovered that employees need reassurance that AI use is allowed, and like utilizing the web or search engine to finish a activity extra effectively.
3. And eventually, our pilots confirmed that AI adoption actually does save time! – Actually, employees throughout the totally different sectors estimate that generative AI is now saving them roughly over 122 hours a 12 months, exceeding our modeled estimates of 100 hours/ 12 months.